Matthew C Hansen

Biographic Data

ID4004575
NAMEMatthew C Hansen
GIVEN NAMESMatthew C
FAMILY NAMEHansen
SIGNATUREHANSEN M C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ORCID0000-0003-0042-2767
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Beyond MRV: Combining remote sensing and ecosystem modeling for geospatial monitoring and attribution of forest carbon fluxes over Maryland, USA

    Open AccessG C Hurtt, Lei Ma et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Members of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of 24 states committed to achieving the emissions reductions outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement, are considering policy options for inclusion of forest carbon in climate mitigation plans. These initiatives are generally limited by a lack of relevant data on forest carbon stocks and fluxes past-to-future. Previously, we developed a new forest carbon modeling system that combined high-resolution r…

  • Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

    Open AccessFlorence Pendrill, Toby Gardner et al.ARTICLEScience2022

    Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates with profound impacts on ecosystems, climate, and livelihoods, prompting renewed commitments to halt its continuation. Although it is well established that agriculture is a dominant driver of deforestation, rates and mechanisms remain disputed and often lack a clear evidence base. We synthesize the best available pantropical evidence to provide clarity on how agriculture drives deforestation. Alt…

  • Gedi launches a new era of biomass inference from space

    Open AccessRalph Dubayah, John Armston et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Accurate estimation of aboveground forest biomass stocks is required to assess the impacts of land use changes such as deforestation and subsequent regrowth on concentrations of atmospheric CO 2 . The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a lidar mission launched by NASA to the International Space Station in 2018. GEDI was specifically designed to retrieve vegetation structure within a novel, theoretical sampling design that explicitl…

  • Coupled forest zoning and agricultural intervention yields conflicting outcomes for tropical forest conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

    Open AccessJanet Nackoney, Miro Demol et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Agricultural intensification and forest conservation are often seen as incompatible. Agricultural interventions can help boost food security for poor rural communities but in certain cases can exacerbate deforestation, known as the rebound effect. We tested whether coupling agricultural interventions with participatory forest zoning could improve food security and promote forest conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Simple agricul…

  • Assessing protected area’s carbon stocks and ecological structure at regional-scale using Gedi lidar

    Open AccessMengyu Liang, Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022References: 3

    Protected areas (PAs) serve as a critical strategy for protecting natural resources, conserving biodiversity, and mitigating climate change. While there is a critical need to guide area-based conservation efforts, a systematic assessment of PA effectiveness for storing carbon stocks has not been possible due to the lack of globally consistent forest biomass data. In this study, we present a new methodology utilizing forest structural information …

  • Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century

    Open AccessPeter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova et al.ARTICLENature Food2021

    Spatiotemporally consistent data on global cropland extent is essential for tracking progress towards sustainable food production. In the present study, we present an analysis of global cropland area change for the first two decades of the twenty-first century derived from satellite data time-series. We estimate that, in 2019, the cropland area was 1,244 Mha with a corresponding total annual net primary production (NPP) of 5.5 Pg C year −1 . From…

  • Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of Gedi and Landsat data

    Open AccessPeter Potapov, Xinyuan Li et al.ARTICLERemote Sensing of Environment2021

  • Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors

    Open AccessSassan Saatchi, Marcos Longo et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Global land use extent and dispersion within natural land cover using Landsat data

    Open AccessMatthew C Hansen, Peter Potapov et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The conversion of natural land cover into human-dominated land use systems has significant impacts on the environment. Global mapping and monitoring of human-dominated land use extent via satellites provides an empirical basis for assessing land use pressures. Here, we present a novel 2019 global land cover, land use, and ecozone map derived from Landsat satellite imagery and topographical data using derived image feature spaces and algorithms su…

  • Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation

    Open AccessXiao‐Peng Song, Matthew C Hansen et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Cited by: 14References: 7

  • Biophysical and socioeconomic drivers of oil palm expansion in Indonesia

    Open AccessYu Xin, Laixiang Sun et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Indonesia has been the largest supplier of palm oil since 2007, and now supplies around 56% of the global market. While the existing literature has paid serious attention to the diverse impacts of oil palm plantation on socioeconomic factors and the environment, less is known about the joint role of biophysical and socioeconomic factors in shaping the temporal and spatial dynamics of oil palm expansion. This research investigates how the benefits…

  • Satellite-detected gain in built-up area as a leading economic indicator

    Open AccessQing Ying, Matthew C Hansen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Leading indicators of future economic activity include measures such as new housing starts, managers purchasing index, money supply, and bond yields. Such macroeconomic and financial indicators hold predictive power in signaling recessionary periods. However, many indicators are constrained by the fact that data are often published with some delay and are subject to constant revision (Bandholz and Funke 2003, Huang et al 2018, Orphanides 2003). I…

  • Classifying drivers of global forest loss

    Open AccessPaulette G Curtis, Christy M Slay et al.ARTICLEScience2018

    Mapping global deforestation patterns Forest loss is being driven by various factors, including commodity production, forestry, agriculture, wildfire, and urbanization. Curtis et al. used high-resolution Google Earth imagery to map and classify global forest loss since 2001. Just over a quarter of global forest loss is due to deforestation through permanent land use change for the production of commodities, including beef, soy, palm oil, and wood…

  • Global land change from 1982 to 2016

    Open AccessXiao-Peng Song, Xiao‐Peng Song et al.ARTICLENature2018

  • Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia

    Open AccessSvetlana Turubanova, Peter Potapov et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Humid tropical forests provide numerous global ecosystem services, but are under continuing threat of clearing from economic drivers. Here, we report primary humid tropical forest extent for the year 2001, and primary forest loss and distance to loss from 2002–2014 for the largest rainforest countries of Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Indonesia. Brazil’s total area of primary forest loss is more than twice that of Indonesia a…

  • The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013

    Open AccessPeter Potapov, Matthew C Hansen et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2017

    Intact forest landscapes have the greatest conservation value but are shrinking due to industrial logging and fragmentation.

  • Comprehensive monitoring of Bangladesh tree cover inside and outside of forests, 2000–2014

    Open AccessPeter Potapov, Baktiar N Siddiqui et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    A novel approach for satellite-based comprehensive national tree cover change assessment was developed and applied in Bangladesh, a country where trees outside of forests play an important role in the national economy and carbon sequestration. Tree cover change area was quantified using the integration of wall-to-wall Landsat-based mapping with a higher spatial resolution sample-based assessment. The total national tree canopy cover area was esti…

  • Using spatial statistics to identify emerging hot spots of forest loss

    Open AccessNancy L Harris, Elizabeth Dow Goldman et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    As sources of data for global forest monitoring grow larger, more complex and numerous, data analysis and interpretation become critical bottlenecks for effectively using them to inform land use policy discussions. Here in this paper, we present a method that combines big data analytical tools with Emerging Hot Spot Analysis (ArcGIS) to identify statistically significant spatiotemporal trends of forest loss in Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic…

  • Quantification of land cover and land use within the rural complex of the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Open AccessGiuseppe Molinario, Matthew C Hansen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    The rural complex is the inhabited agricultural land cover mosaic found along the network of rivers and roads in the forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a product of traditional small-holder shifting cultivation. To date, thanks to its distinction from primary forest, this area has been mapped as relatively homogenous, leaving the proportions of land cover heterogeneity within it unknown. However, the success of strategies for susta…

  • Humid tropical forest disturbance alerts using Landsat data

    Open AccessMatthew C Hansen, Alexander Krylov et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    A Landsat-based humid tropical forest disturbance alert was implemented for Peru, the Republic of Congo and Kalimantan, Indonesia. Alerts were mapped on a weekly basis as new terrain-corrected Landsat 7 and 8 images were made available; results are presented for all of 2014 and through September 2015. The three study areas represent different stages of the forest land use transition, with all featuring a variety of disturbance dynamics including …

  • Measurement and monitoring needs, capabilities and potential for addressing reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation under Redd

    Open AccessScott J Goetz, Scott Goetz et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    This paper presents an overview of the state of measurement and monitoring capabilities for forests in the context of REDD+ needs, with a focus on what is currently possible, where improvements are needed, and what capabilities will be advanced in the near-term with new technologies already under development. We summarize the role of remote sensing (both satellite and aircraft) for observational monitoring of forests, including measuring changes …

  • Aboveground carbon loss in natural and managed tropical forests from 2000 to 2012

    Open AccessAlexandra Tyukavina, Alessandro Baccini et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Tropical forests provide global climate regulation ecosystem services and their clearing is a significant source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and resultant radiative forcing of climate change. However, consensus on pan-tropical forest carbon dynamics is lacking. We present a new estimate that employs recommended good practices to quantify gross tropical forest aboveground carbon (AGC) loss from 2000 to 2012 through the integrat…

  • Forest cover dynamics of shifting cultivation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A remote sensing-based assessment for 2000–2010

    Open AccessGiuseppe Molinario, Matthew C Hansen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Shifting cultivation has traditionally been practiced in the Democratic Republic of Congo by carving agricultural fields out of primary and secondary forest, resulting in the rural complex: a characteristic land cover mosaic of roads, villages, active and fallow fields and secondary forest. Forest clearing has varying impacts depending on where it occurs relative to this area: whether inside it, along its primary forest interface, or in more isol…

  • Remote sensing estimates of stand-replacement fires in Russia, 2002–2011

    Open AccessAlexander Krylov, J L Mccarty et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    The presented study quantifies the proportion of stand-replacement fires in Russian forests through the integrated analysis of Landsat and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data products. We employed 30 m Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus derived tree canopy cover and decadal (2001–2012) forest cover loss (Hansen et al 2013 High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change Science 342 850–53) to identify fore…

  • National satellite-based humid tropical forest change assessment in Peru in support of Redd+ implementation

    Open AccessPeter Potapov, P V Potapov et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    Transparent, consistent, and accurate national forest monitoring is required for successful implementation of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) programs. Collecting baseline information on forest extent and rates of forest loss is a first step for national forest monitoring in support of REDD+. Peru, with the second largest extent of Amazon basin rainforest, has made significant progress in advancing its forest …